Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-16

500, 600 palace and tesches the deaf ONLY
for amusement, and thai by proxV. H.
has little deaf and dumb school 81
Washington, snd be has succeeTed il
making the deaf carry OF oral converse
ton
Goodyear the CREST rubber inventor
was dee mod crazy for years on account ot
his theories Of rubber, and he
died st last, j1st when bis fortune
wss m.de. Colt. the inventor OF the re-
volvor left school and ran sway TO sea
While On the voyage he whitfield out a
model of his pistol ard as soon as he
could scrspe enough money together az
fer his return ne began to manufacture it
He made fortune vfrV soon and died al
| f7rtv-eieht when he was Just in condition
70 erj0y it. Brush, the electric light in
ventor, worked on a newspaper only a
few sesrs go at SI5 2 week, and George
| Pullman, the slef ping car millionaire, be-
gan life in furniture store.
! II is interesting indeed to look back at
the hard times that some of these rich
men have hsd and not a few of the envi-
Gus NAV be wishing that thy were eX
periencing similar times now, Let me
bunch lot of them together Woer-
/
long sgo, began life a. bank clerk.
Rufus Hstch's first speculatioDs were In
steel pens and turkeys. Tom Scott, the
famous railroad president, drove smule
on the State canal in Pennsvlvanis, and
Horace Greeley worked ar the printers
case fer as low ga 81 so week. He
borrowed $1,000 tn start the Tribune, and
Afterwards loaned Cornelius Vanderbilt
| S200N wi IN
Childs. the millionaire editor of the
Philadelphia Ledger, was an errand hoy
when he decided to become q rich man
ano to own the Ledger, and Jane 2
G0Tdon Bennett when he at twenty years
| Of age landed at Halifax from Scot
| land, had Just S25 in his pocket. He was
about starving when he got to Boston
ard WAS Overt rYed at finding shilling
He got work IN a book store snd few
wears afterwards started the New York
Herald in cellar on Wall street, with
TWO barrels with a plank across them for
desk. His brains told, and his son, q
SIX milliona re, can now keep yachts and
spend his fortune on polo ard Paris.
The founders Of our greatest book
firms began in small way. The first
book published by the Appletons was
lection of scripture ttxss L. cost SIS 70
get il out, g nd the Il m thought they were
doirg hig thing at the time. They now
have 1000 employees, and use 3 score or
more of presses. Harper's Publishiog
house grew up from the printers case,
and James Harper, upon beginning bis
printing business upon his own hook,
took his brother into partnership, and
~ hoI HroF
book
Robert Bonner, the owner OF the Ledger
and Dexter, was also type setter st I'll.
beginning and it is said he could set 100
ems an hour. When he began his worB
OF editing the Ledger his friends prophe-
sled that he would ruin himself by his
when he paid Fanny Fern $1,000 for q
story and threw up their hands when he
engaged Henry Ward Beecber to write g
was ABOUT, and his millions are a testi-
monY OF the fact.
Stephen Girsrd, the richest banker in
the United States st the time of his des b.,
was wall eyed cabin boy On sailing
ship at fifteen years Of age, and his first
business in P0iladPlphi. was that Of 8
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philadelphia clothier, worked for years in
ais fsther's brick-ysrd, Hand his first work
sway from home Drought him in 81 20 q
week. He received this for CleTklHg 10 a
book store and walked four miles every
day from his home to his work He DID
his work we'll and his salary was increased
10 81 30 week He has now one of the
niggest stores in the world and il takes
1 ri DO ID
Henry Disstop, the ssw-maker whose
saws are esteemed the best by cabinet
makers, was apprenticed TO saw maker
st seventeen. He made million and
more by sticking to his business. Mar
~hall Jewell, one If Grants Postmaster
Generals, left q fortune. He began life
IN lanyard and until he was eighteen he
scraped sKins and worked about the vats
in his fathers establishment. The iDf)r-
nation here gained aided him in making
fortune in leather betting, and before
he died he said he had never been con
nected with an institution which did not
paw S good intert st on the investment.
Matthew Vsssar, the millionaire, from
whose money Vasssr College got It's start,
came near being tanner, and had his
father succeeded in making him one he
hnfO o LOi buhO a. IL
The boy, however, did not. take to the
idea, and his mother helped him
to run away from home TO
keep out CT the lanyard. She gave
him IS cents and her bless.
ing and he deemed him 'elt rich when he
was afterwards able to make $500 year.
His father was a brewer, and the son for
a time ran an oyster and beer saloon ct
Poughkeepsie. He afterwards came
back home and established another brew
cry after the burning Of that of his father,
aud it wss this that formed the foua-
datiOn Of his millions.
Thus Vassar College is built upon
beer, and it is a fact that some of
the greatest charities in the world
have come from liquor dealers. The
two greatest csthedr lis In Dublin are
made from he profits of Guinness stout
and Irish whisky and the brewers of the
former have been through their wealth
made members IF the English nobility.
The aristocracv of wealth in the present
money-maklpg era rules the universe, and
the above instances will show that the
books are open to every one who will en-.
ter and the race Is free for sill. 4
FRANK &. CARPENTER.